Black Canary

Black Canary (English: " Black Canary ") is the name of a cartoon character owned by the U.S. entertainment company Time Warner. The figure, which is also known as a flash Swallow in Germany, was invented in 1947 by author Robert Kanigher and Carmine Infantino to the subscriber and has since been used mainly in comic publications of the publishing house DC Comics, a subsidiary of Time Warner.

Features

Black Canary is a female heroine, who is usually represented as a blonde in fishnet stocking and a tight black outfit. The first version of the figure had no supernatural powers and mastered their adventures mainly using distinct martial arts skills. Later, the authors could join her become the trademark bloodcurdling scream sonar.

A recurring theme in many stories of Black Canary is the relationship of the figure superhero colleague Green Arrow.

Publication history

The character Black Canary, featuring the real identity, Dinah Drake, was originally developed as a secondary character for the published in the 1940s in the issues of the American comic book series Flash Comics stories around the clumsy Johnny Thunder. The first time appeared on the figure in the booklet Flash Comics # 86 from August 1947. Author of this story was the science-fiction writer Robert Kanigher, who also wrote most of the early Black Canary stories. The visual design of the figure, which has been maintained despite some optical variations to this day, on the whole, the artist Carmine Infantino developed.

Since the character immediately proved to be extremely popular, you put Black Canary from issue # 92 itself at the center of some stories. Here her companion was the private eye Larry Lance. Published in 1965 some of their adventures in The brave and the bold, where they performed together with the superhero Starman. Soon after, the figure was also used as a member of the superhero teams Justice Society of America in the eponymous comic book series. In the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, Black Canary was incorporated as a character in the series Green Arrow and Justice League of America. In addition, the figure from time to time appeared in solo stories in series like World's Finest Comics and Adventure Comics on.

Faced with the problem that the character has been active since the 40s, and thus in the 80s already to have to be 60 years old, 1983, a backstory was introduced, which ensures the continuity of the narrative. Since there are two distinct characters, mother and daughter, with the real identities Dinah Drake Lance (the original Black Canary ) and Dinah Laurel Lance. The younger Dinah Lance Black Canary embodies since then.

In the early 1990s, turned DC Comics Black Canary as the main character in the center of two named after her comic series. First appeared from November 1991 to February 1992 the series Black Canary. From January 1993 to December 1993 followed then a further twelve editions reach Black Canary series. As a writer for this series Sarah E. Byam was hired artist was Trevor from Eeden.

An important role was played by the character also in the publications of the Birds -of-Prey series, where he is next to Huntress and Barbara Gordon one of the three main characters, and was present in more than 100 magazines.

In film and television

The role of Black Canary was first adopted in 1979 by a Female Actor: The not recessive, Danuta Soderman Rylko embodied the character in the TV production Legends of the Super Heroes on NBC.

As of 2002, Lori Loughlin played the character in the series Birds of Prey.

2008 Black Canary, played by Alaina Kalanj, two guest appearances in the 7th and 8th season of Smallville.

2012 Katie Cassidy takes over the role of Dinah Laurel Lance in the U.S. TV series Arrow ( 2012 - ). However, this Laurel Lance does not have the alter ego of Black Canary. Black Canary is introduced only in the second season of the series as a minor character, played by Caity Lotz, with the real identity Sara Lance, the lost sister of Laurel. Black Canary here is on the run from Ra's al Ghul from which it was obviously trained.

The animated versions of the figure that emerged at the beginning of the 21st century in the series Justice League and Justice League Unlimited, were by Jennifer Hale ( Justice League ) and Morena Baccarin ( Justice League Unlimited) synchronized. They combine characteristics of different comic book versions of the character.